5 Ways in Which Collibra and SAP Unleash Data Potential
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Key Takeaways
⇨ Effective data governance is essential for organizations, particularly in the cloud, as master data quality directly impacts business performance and costs.
⇨ The partnership between Collibra and SAP offers a robust framework for data governance, helping organizations ensure data reliability during ERP transformations, such as SAP S/4HANA migrations.
⇨ By enabling the creation and management of trusted data products, the Collibra-SAP partnership fosters a data-driven culture, empowering employees to use data confidently and drive innovation.
Effective data governance has transitioned from a ‘nice-to-have’ to an absolute necessity. However, SAPinsider research indicates that master data quality and governance issues are among the top five concerns with organizations when it comes to storing and managing data in the cloud. The study also shows a significant percentage of data within enterprises is either erroneous or goes unused, costing businesses billions annually.
In this challenging landscape, the strategic partnership between Collibra and SAP emerges as a critical solution, offering five key benefits that empower organizations to unlock the true potential of their data.
1. Create Trusted Business Insights
At the heart of any successful data strategy lies the ability to generate reliable business insights. A Collibra-SAP integration facilitates this by providing a unified view of data across the SAP ecosystem and beyond. The integration allows users to create and certify trusted business insights with ease, including visualization, analytics, and dashboards.
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Additionally, Collibra’s unified governance platform for data and AI enables users to understand the context, lineage, and quality of their data, fostering trust in the insights derived from it. By bridging the gap between SAP’s transactional data and Collibra’s metadata management, businesses can confidently leverage their data to make informed decisions, optimize operations, and drive innovation.
2. Enhance Data Reliability Throughout ERP Transformation
ERP transformations, particularly those involving SAP S/4HANA, are complex undertakings that demand meticulous data management. Migrating and integrating data from legacy systems requires ensuring its accuracy and consistency.
The Collibra-SAP partnership provides a robust framework for data governance during these transformations. Utilizing the integrated platform helps organizations to de-risk and speed up their transformation processes with automation and workflows that establish an AI-ready data foundation.
Collibra’s data quality and cataloging capabilities also enable organizations to cleanse, standardize, and validate data, ensuring its reliability throughout the migration process. This translates to smoother transitions, reduced risks, and faster time-to-value for ERP implementations.
3. Drive Trusted Data Use with Data Products
The concept of data products has gained significant traction in a world where data is treated as a strategic asset. Collibra and SAP empower organizations to create and manage trusted data products by providing a comprehensive platform for data governance and cataloging.
The partnership enables technical and non-technical users to activate SAP and non-SAP data at scale with reusable data products. By defining clear ownership, quality standards, and usage policies, businesses can ensure that data products are reliable and readily accessible to authorized users. This fosters a data-driven culture where employees can confidently leverage data to perform their roles and contribute to the organization’s success.
4. Use Data Marketplaces to Drive Better Decision Making
Data marketplaces are emerging as powerful tools for democratizing data access and promoting self-service analytics. The Collibra-SAP partnership empowers users with self-service access to a curated data marketplace space where they can quickly find, understand and collaborate around data and analytics.
This enables organizations to drive data democratization and innovation. Organizations also build and manage data marketplaces that connect data consumers with trusted data assets through this integration. Collibra’s data catalog also provides a central repository for discovering and understanding data, while SAP’s data integration capabilities enable seamless access to relevant data sources.
5. Achieve End-to-End AI Governance
As artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) become increasingly integrated into business operations, ensuring responsible and ethical AI governance is paramount.
The Collibra-SAP partnership provides a comprehensive framework for governing AI initiatives by addressing data and AI challenges. This includes ensuring people use the right data to train AI to keep the business safe from fines and breaches and a business data fabric that extends data governance to include the entire AI lifecycle.
What This Means for SAPinsiders
Data integrity is a must for streamlined S/4HANA transformations. Users can leverage Collibra to ensure data integrity during their S/4HANA migration, minimizing risks and accelerating transition. This partnership provides the tools needed to cleanse, harmonize, and validate data, resulting in a smoother, more efficient upgrade.
Enhance data governance within your SAP ecosystem. Gain a unified view of your data across all SAP modules through this partnership. Collibra’s data catalog and lineage capabilities provide crucial context, enabling organizations to understand and manage their SAP data effectively.
Future-proof your data strategy for AI and analytics. Prepare your SAP data for advanced analytics and AI through Business Data Cloud, a unified AI-powered platform for enterprise data, announced during SAP Unleashed in February. Collibra’s governance framework and its partnership with SAP ensures that your data is not only accurate but also compliant and ethically sound, enabling you to confidently deploy AI solutions within your SAP environment.
